by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | History
I have never reflected much on how being an historian, my earliest adult ambition, could be like being an accountant, the back-up plan I devised, given how dicey becoming an historian is, until I read this piece by Megan Marshall. Megan Marshall’s recently...
by admin | Sep 10, 2012 | History, Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com on September 10th, 2012 What could motivate as hard-core a tax geek as me to to take the day off on a major due date for the first time in thirty years ? Must be something historic ? It is. September 17th (extended due date for...
by admin | Aug 27, 2012 | Guest Post, History
By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33128550 When not reading original source tax material, which is rather absorbing, I try to keep track of a number of things, one of which is the Occupy Movement. I haven’t seen that much about...
by admin | Mar 22, 2012 | History, Tax
Originally Published on forbes.com on March 22nd, 2012 ______________________________________ I recently wrote about what I perceive as the overblown rhetoric in the debate over the mandate that health care plans cover contraception. The bishops complained that the...
by admin | Oct 27, 2011 | History, Tax
Originally Published on forbes.com on October 27th, 2011 ______________________________________ One of the most frequently mentioned grievances on the We Are The 99 Percent site is excessive student debt. To supplement what I have alreadywritten on the topic I have...
by admin | Oct 15, 2011 | History, Tax
____________________________________________________________________________ I have two consuming intellectual interests. Title 26 of the United States Code and the history of the United States from 1830 to 1870. My first bit of poking around about Occupy Wall...
